Bedouin Culture in the Bible
The first contemporary analysis of Bedouin and biblical cultures sheds new light on biblical laws, practices, and Bedouin history

Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of Bedouin culture, this groundbreaking book sheds new light on significant points of convergence between Bedouin and early Israelite cultures, as manifested in the Hebrew Bible. Bailey compares Bedouin and biblical sources, identifying overlaps in economic activity, material culture, social values, social organization, laws, religious practices, and oral traditions. He examines the question of whether some early Israelites were indeed nomads as the Bible presents them, offering a new angle on the controversy over the identity of the early Israelites and a new cultural perspective to scholars of the Bible and the Bedouin alike.
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Bedouin Culture in the Bible
The first contemporary analysis of Bedouin and biblical cultures sheds new light on biblical laws, practices, and Bedouin history

Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of Bedouin culture, this groundbreaking book sheds new light on significant points of convergence between Bedouin and early Israelite cultures, as manifested in the Hebrew Bible. Bailey compares Bedouin and biblical sources, identifying overlaps in economic activity, material culture, social values, social organization, laws, religious practices, and oral traditions. He examines the question of whether some early Israelites were indeed nomads as the Bible presents them, offering a new angle on the controversy over the identity of the early Israelites and a new cultural perspective to scholars of the Bible and the Bedouin alike.
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Bedouin Culture in the Bible

Bedouin Culture in the Bible

by Clinton Bailey
Bedouin Culture in the Bible

Bedouin Culture in the Bible

by Clinton Bailey

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The first contemporary analysis of Bedouin and biblical cultures sheds new light on biblical laws, practices, and Bedouin history

Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of Bedouin culture, this groundbreaking book sheds new light on significant points of convergence between Bedouin and early Israelite cultures, as manifested in the Hebrew Bible. Bailey compares Bedouin and biblical sources, identifying overlaps in economic activity, material culture, social values, social organization, laws, religious practices, and oral traditions. He examines the question of whether some early Israelites were indeed nomads as the Bible presents them, offering a new angle on the controversy over the identity of the early Israelites and a new cultural perspective to scholars of the Bible and the Bedouin alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300245639
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/23/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Clinton Bailey has studied Bedouin culture firsthand for fifty years and is the author of books on Bedouin poetry, law, and proverbs. He has been an advocate and activist on behalf of Bedouin civil rights in Israel since 1978.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Finding the Bible through the Bedouin 1

1 Bedouin and Israelites in the Desert 12

2 Bedouin Culture in the Biblical Home 34

3 Desert Society 69

4 Desert Laws 107

5 Desert Religion 139

6 Desert Oral Traditions 167

7 Bedouin Israelites in the Hebrew Bible 204

Appendix: Moses and the Midianites 217

Notes 221

Bibliography of Works Cited 241

Index of Bible Passages Cited 251

Index of Arabic Spellings 263

General Index 273

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